Sentence examples for preoccupations as from inspiring English sources

She casts aside youthful preoccupations, as well as her virginity.

Its dramatic exposé of corruption in the retail trade in Naples clearly announced Rosi's social preoccupations, as did I Magliari (The Weavers, 1959), which dealt with the lives of Italian immigrants in northern Europe.

Another new anthology of Yiddish stories, "No Star Too Beautiful" (Norton), edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel, has selections reaching back to 1382, but the encounter between modernity and a traditional society is one of its main preoccupations as well.

Though he could scarcely be accused of making the same movie twice, Jeff Nichols has established a set of cinematic themes and preoccupations as consistent as those of any American writer-director working today.

They have the same preoccupations as physicians: to preserve health and to prolong physical life.

Chua's larger historical preoccupations, as she suggests, arise from her own biography.

That seems to show a United States preoccupation: as bad as the Civil War was, in terms of loss of life it does not even rank in the top 20 conflicts worldwide since 1800, and it had a relatively small effect on other nations.

His notes and drawings display an enormous range of interests and preoccupations, some as mundane as lists of groceries and people who owed him money and some as intriguing as designs for wings and shoes for walking on water.

By now — "The Darjeeling Limited" is his fifth feature film — Mr. Anderson's methods and preoccupations are as familiar as the arguments for and against them.

Yet the movie's preoccupations are as much religious, even sacerdotal, as political.

Other preoccupations remain as well, amongst others, in terms of social acceptability, legislation and with regards to knowledge acquisition, notably on water resources".